.......for those of a certain age, cast your minds back (no, further than that!), before Playstation, Xbox, NES, there was the mighty patio-slab that was the BBC Model B. Upon this mighty behemoth was the epic, ground-breaking game of Elite, running in the vast expanse that was 32Kb! (Yes children, we had computers that ran on Kb, not Mb or Gb, and this included a whopping 8k for the screen data too!)

For those of that certain age, those heady days are being proposed once more..........

...complete with internet multi-player capability (how many of us thought that could be a cool idea 30 years ago? )

(oh, ****, now I suddenly feel old!)

Obviously a galaxy named "Briskoda" would be kinda cool, but I don't think we'd get the £3,000 together to manage that one :(

I'll be up for this as i loved Elite on the BBC B

Got to the rank of deadly in my Cobra MK3 with military lasers all round except the mining laser on the back. I was so badass i'd even intentionally mis jump into witchspace to kick some thargoid ass and bag me some thargons.

God i loved Elite!

RIGHT ON COMMANDER!

I lost many hours to First Encounters on the PC.. My good ol trusty Viper mk2, class2 military drive, 4mw beam laser and a couple of shield generators.

I never did get away with ejecting the radioactive waste after a jump without it smashing into the ship.. (and id get fined by the cops half the time too lol)

Worst mistake i ever made was selling the viper for a imperial courier and then hating just how slow and badly it handled.

Oolite

http://www.oolite.org/

It's free.

Edited 6 November, 201213 yr by Aspman

I remember playing Elite on my BBC Model B - it had twin (yes you read it right), twin floppy drives.

That's about where my memory finishes - can't really recall anything else about the game.

i just hope they get it right, i remember seeing this and being so excited then playing it and finding it lacked some of the magic of Elite

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Unfortunately the comments on this video show the problem with kids today

• richerite 5 months ago
  The? graphics sucks. MW3 for life.
  pokefan68 3 weeks ago
  These graphics were back when you had to use actual imagination to determine what the objects were. For example in MW3 you see a gun and automatically think "Oh, and M16, burst fire, and fires 5.56mm rounds...meh." Whereas in games like this you pick up a gun and you have to stop, think, and actually use your? imagination. Once you connect all the dots you finally say "HOLY ****! A Megablaster3000! **** Yea, DIE NOOBS!!!" and you get more fun out of the gun and the game itself.
  richerite 3 weeks ago
  Graphics over? gamplay for life.
  pokefan68 3 weeks ago
  So basically what you're? saying is, you'd much rather eat the most beautiful cake that tastes like the worst absolute thing you can think of, rather than an ugly cake that tastes better than nutella, bacon, and pizza all combined?
  
• richerite 3 weeks ago
  WHO THE F*** EATS AN UGLY? CAKCE?
  pokefan68 3 weeks ago
  Who the **** passes up a? cake?
  

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God knows what they would have made of the BBC B graphics - which I thought were fantastic at the time.

What?? Never heard of it.

My 1st computer was a Spectrum 128k.

What?? Never heard of it.

My 1st computer was a Spectrum 128k.

I had a copy of JetSet Willy that had been hacked to work on the 128!

I had frontier: elite 2 on my Amiga which I loved. Tried playing Elite on a mates C64 but couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing as we didn't have any instructions.

I shudder to think how many hours I spent on Elite on the Beeb, C64 and Amiga.

Never got on with Frontier or FFA though.

Anyway, I'm in for the kickstarter - here's hoping this will be good.

I started with a Sinclair ZX81, then moved up to an Atari 800, then an 800XL. Beuty of the Ataris was they had games pre-loaded onto cartridges aswell as the ability to load from tape. I spent many hours playing Star Raiders on that and writing progs in Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, that's BASIC to anyone under ~35 who reads this Neighbour had a BBC B, coolest thing I ever saw was him putting graphics and titles onto a home video.

Oi I'm under 35 and fully get it.

I've got the original BBC box and cassette somewhere.

I also object to be being bundled in to that group - I'm 26 and was tinkering with a BBC in primary school!

oh ffs, ok anyone under ~26

oh ffs, ok anyone under ~26

Microsoft is still keeping BASIC alive today as well with their Visual Basic offerings, although perhaps it's less of a "Beginners" language than the original offerings on the likes of the BBC, Spectrum, PC, etc with its OO capabilities and broader instruction set and no line numbers.

Chris

I've still got a boxed ZX81 complete with memory expansion pack....all 16K of it. Sadly doesn't work anymore.

Andy

I've still got a boxed ZX81 complete with memory expansion pack....all 16K of it. Sadly doesn't work anymore.

Andy

OMG! 16K! What were you going to do with all that memory? :| :| ;)

10 PRINT "Hello Mum"

20 GOTO 10

RUN

10 PRINT "Hello Mum"

20 GOTO 10

RUN

You mean "hello world" surely.

I see you lot were born with silver spoons in your mouths.

BBC, C64, Spectrum, I bet some of you even had cpc464's ?

I on the other hand had to make do with the acorn electron :(

lol

Yeah I had a 464. It was amazing.

The electron wasn't cheap, it was just bought by beardy wierdy types who thought computers should be educational.

I see you lot were born with silver spoons in your mouths.

BBC, C64, Spectrum, I bet some of you even had cpc464's ?

I on the other hand had to make do with the acorn electron :(

lol

I saved all my money and worked during the summer holidays to get my BBC B. Then dragged my parents all round Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to try and find one. Ended up buying one in Boots!

oh ffs, ok anyone under ~26

I'm 25 (for 3 more weeks) and played with bbc's at school. Seem to remember some game where you would walk through a gate and you had to choose which way to go, or something similar